The world's second largest personal computer chipmaker, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) at an interview at the 2013 Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan announced it would be ending a decade long policy of Windows exclusivity in OEM products.

While it will continue to produce chips for the Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) operating system, which remains the world's most used PC OS, AMD announced it will also target devices using Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome OS PC or Android mobile operating systems. Currently AMD supports system builders installing Linux on servers, desktops, and laptop machines, but its consumer face -- all of its widely distributed OEM design wins -- is Windows exclusive.

Windows tablets in general continue to struggle; and to boot AMD's previous tablet chips the Z-01 and Z-60 saw deployment in only a handful of models. Thus AMD is essentially starting from the bottom when it comes to the tablet market -- and it's eyeing the market's second biggest player (Google) to help that bid.